PASOK

The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) is a social democratic political party in Greece that was founded on 3 September 1974. The party was founded by Andreas Papandreou as a democratic socialist and left-wing nationalist political party, and it won the 1981 legislative election, making it the first center-left party to win a majority in the Hellenic Parliament. The party rivalled the conservative New Democracy party for years, and its support collapsed as a result of the 2009 debt crisis. PASOK went from having 160 mandates in 2009 to a mere 17 in 2015, with the radical left-wing Syriza party becoming the new main leftist party in the country.